- Where are you from (country)?
FR - How did you find this forum (Google search – if so, what search terms? Via link from a forum or website – if so, what page? Other?)
Google - What is your current age, height, weight?
31 / 175 cms / 73 Kgs - Do you excercise regularly? If so, what type of excercise?
football - What type of diet do you eat (vegetarian, meat eater, raw, fast-food/organic healthy)?
all - Why did you take Finasteride (hair loss, BPH, other)?
hair loss - For how long did you take Finasteride (weeks/months/years)?
2 years - How old were you, and WHEN (date) did you start Finasteride?
27 yo / 2008 - How old were you when you quit, and WHEN (date) did you quit?
29 / 2010 - How did you quit (cold turkey or taper off)?
attenuated then stopped it - What type of Finasteride did you use – Propecia, Proscar, Fincar or other generic?
proscar - What dose did you take (eg. 1 mg/day, 1 mg every other day etc.)?
quite 1mg/day - How long into your use of Finasteride did you notice the onset of side effects?
don’t really remember maybe 3 or 4 months. - What side effects did you experience while on the drug that have yet to resolve since discontinuation?
weak erections, no spontaneous erections, loss of sex drive it is like a deconexion between penis and brain
Put an X beside all that apply:
Sexual
[ X] Loss of Libido / Sex Drive
[ X] Erectile Dysfunction
[ ] Complete Impotence
[X ] Loss of Morning Erections
[ X] Loss of Spontaneous Erections
[ X] Loss of Nocturnal Erections
[ X] Watery Ejaculate
[ X] Reduced Ejaculate
[ ] Inability to Ejaculate / Orgasm
[X ] Reduced Sperm Count / Motility
Mental
[ ] Emotional Blunting / Emotionally Flat
[X ] Difficulty Focusing / Concentrating
[ X] Confusion
[ X] Memory Loss / Forgetfullness
[ ] Stumbling over Words / Losing Train of Thought
[ ] Slurring of Speech
[ X] Lack of Motivation / Feeling Passive / Complacency
[ ] Extreme Anxiety / Panic Attacks
[ ] Depression / Melancholy
Physical
[ ] Penile Tissue Changes (narrowing, shrinkage, wrinkled)
[ ] Penis curvature / rotation on axis
[ ] Testicular Pain
[ X] Testicular Shrinkage / Loss of Fullness
[ X] Genital numbness / sensitivity decrease
[ X] Weight Gain
[ ] Gynecomastia (male breasts)
[ ] Muscle Wastage
[ X] Muscle Weakness
[X ] Joint Pain
[ X] Dry / Dark Circles under eyes
Misc
[ ] Prostate pain
[X ] Persistent Fatigue / Exhaustion
[ ] Stomach Pains / Digestion Problems
[ ] Constipation / “Poo Pellets”
[ ] Vision - Acuity Decrease / Blurriness
[ ] Increased hair loss
[ X] Frequent urination
[ X] Lowered body temperature
[ ] Other (please explain)
- What (if any) treatments have you undertaken to recover from your side effects since discontinuation of the drug?
I made something like 10 liver’s flushes and excreted a lot of gallstones, hydrotherapy (1 time) and now iodine cure, started just a week ago. - If you have pre or post-Finasteride bloodtests, what hormonal changes have you encountered since discontinuing the drug (pls post your test results in the “Blood Tests” section and link to them in your post)?
I haven’t - Anything not listed in the above questions you’d like to share about your experience with Finasteride?
hair loss or sex loss, that is the question. - Tell us your story, in your own words, about your Finasteride usage and side effects experienced while on/off the drug.
nothing more than I telled here, I took it for two years, when I started to have less erections I look around on the web and understood that I MUST quit this shit. Maybe naively I thought I could recover naturally but after two years I have to recognize that NOT maybe erections’s quality have lessened more! So I’m trying to recover reading protocol on the web.